Fact #176355
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The Who play at The Union Ballroom, Newcastle, UK, Europe
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Pete Townshend : I held that Baba's word has been spoken, probably about the time of his death. I was suffering from a bout of flu when Baba was about to drop his earthly body. We were playing Newcastle the day he died, and when I got home the news was broken to me, I felt as if I had betrayed myself. I felt as if I hadn't had enough time to really make myself ready, to learn to love Baba and hang tightly to his apron strings as the whirlwind of spiritual events around the closing of his manifestation speeded up.
Today I understand a little better. I am not the spiritually advanced seeker I imagined myself to be. Reading too much Herman Hesse and Idries Shah can be a bad thing in that respect. One builds a sort of hero worship for the 'Seeker' in the same way one would a film star. It's only recently I've begun to see that Baba's word is an eternal word. Its impact reaches well into the past and the future. The wave of spiritual fervor and obsession that sweeps youth today is a reflection of the force of that word, that expression of his almighty loneliness...
Baba washed the religious preconceptions from my heart with my own tears. I love Jesus far more now than I ever did at infant school as I sang, 'Yes, Jesus loves me.' Now I know he really was the Christ.
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Today I understand a little better. I am not the spiritually advanced seeker I imagined myself to be. Reading too much Herman Hesse and Idries Shah can be a bad thing in that respect. One builds a sort of hero worship for the 'Seeker' in the same way one would a film star. It's only recently I've begun to see that Baba's word is an eternal word. Its impact reaches well into the past and the future. The wave of spiritual fervor and obsession that sweeps youth today is a reflection of the force of that word, that expression of his almighty loneliness...
Baba washed the religious preconceptions from my heart with my own tears. I love Jesus far more now than I ever did at infant school as I sang, 'Yes, Jesus loves me.' Now I know he really was the Christ.
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